Custom plantation shutters in Mission Viejo

Mission Viejo is our backyard. The factory is in Lake Forest, ten minutes up the 5, and we've been installing in MV neighborhoods since The Mission Viejo Company was still actively building. There are homes in Canyon Crest and around Lake Mission Viejo where the original basswood shutters we installed twenty-five years ago are still on the windows, still operating cleanly. Over a hundred installs in those two areas alone.

The MV homes that come to us most often share a few characteristics: strong west-facing exposure, large window openings (especially on the lake side and the canyon-edge cul-de-sacs), and a preference for letting daylight in without watching the heat climb. Our 3.5-inch and 4.5-inch louvers are the most-asked-for combination here. They give the open-room feel that the Saddleback Valley layouts were designed around, and they cut heat gain enough that the AC isn't running through the afternoon.

Pacific Hills, Painted Trails, and Stoneridge each have their own architectural quirks. Some Pacific Hills floor plans have arched tops that the original builder framed before they thought through the trim profile. We mill to the actual frame, not the nominal arch radius, which is the difference between a panel that seats flush and one that has a finger-width gap at the corner.